A Companion to The Doctrine of the Hert

The Middle English Translation and its Latin and European Contexts

Edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead

Edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead

Distributed for Liverpool University Press

University of Exeter Press - Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies

Cloth $105.00 ISBN: 9780859898218 Published April 2010 For sale in North and South America only

The Doctrine of the Hert is a fifteenth-century Middle English translation of De doctrina cordis, a thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addressed to nuns. Despite its medieval popularity, The Doctrine of the Hert had largely escaped the attention of scholars until recently, yet it has much to contribute to our understanding of late medieval female spirituality. This volume consists of ten essays from an international group of medieval religious scholars who discuss the Middle English text alongside its Latin forebear and other European vernacular translations.